The Southwest Chief finishes its descent down the north side of Raton Pass, into sunset light, approaching Trinidad. After this, it will be flat and straight for the majority of the... (more)

Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr loops around the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon before returning to the face of the Flatirons to climb before heading back into the rest of the Tunnel District.

Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr climbs up to the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon before reversing to climb along the Flatirons above Denver/Boulder. Amtrak 145 leads ... this is now one of Amtrak... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Chief winds up through the Wootton Curves, made famous by AT&SF calendar photographers decades ago. It will shortly duck out of sight of I-25 until after it has negotiated the ... (more)

Coming down the south side of Raton Pass, the westbound Southwest Chief is on time today, approaching Raton, NM. Amtrak 145/154 lead today's edition. #145 has since been repainted ... (more)

Curling down through the curves at Wootton, Amtrak's Southwest Chief retraces the path of some very famous trains.

A mix of power at the east end of CP's yard, ready for the morning's movements. Notice the string of 3 SP/SSW liveried locomotives at top. I count 8 distinct schemes (if you don't count UP's flag ... (more)

Chicago Terminal Railroad, in accessing its Kingsbury Branch, cuts straight through the middle of a busy scrap iron operation (if you can ever come watch this, by the way, it's EXTREMELY fun). To... (more)

Traveling west along the north side of Moose Lake.

In 1992, Metra pondered a radial route on the EJ&E. I happened upon this train being prepared to film the route for Metra/EJ&E "brass." I was told the camera man would be riding there wi... (more)

Awaiting clearance into the small Taylor Yard (ex-MoPac), UP 8570 heads up an aggregates train from Western Railroad Co. in New Braunfels (my childhood home).

KCS 1917 holds down a work train, just off on the old Texas Mexican Ry. lead into Corpus Christi. The tracks from Robtown to the small ex-Texas Mexican yard in Corpus are jammed with inbound trai... (more)

During the late morning, a pair of F40PHs are visible in the pit, while another is being hostled on the elevated C&NW lines. The Milwaukee (UP) West lines cut under and are visible near the top o... (more)

Unusual back-to-back, clean and freshly painted, Metra locomotives 214/215 push in to Chicago Union Station. The locomotives are back-to-back for a private car charter to be operated the next day,... (more)